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No More Apple Mysteries Part Two
UltimaGuy writes "Anadtech has an article up comparing the IBM G5 with Intel's CPU. This gives us insight on the strength and weakness of Mac OS X. It also has some thoughts of what they perceive to be OS X's Achilles Heel." From the article: "That is what we'll be doing in this article: we will shed more light on the whole Apple versus x86 PC, IBM G5 versus Intel CPU discussion by showing you what the G5 is capable of when running Linux. This gives us insight on the strength and weakness of Mac OS X, as we compare Linux and Mac OS X on the same machine. The article won't answer all the questions that the first one had unintentionally created. As we told you in the previous article, Apple pointed out that Oracle and Sybase should fare better than MySQL on the Xserve platform. We will postpone the more in-depth database testing (including Oracle) to a later point in time, when we can test the new Apple Intel platform." This is the sequel to another article, reported on in June.
A great shame that they didn't run similar tests on a windows system compared to an OS X system. That would have shown once and for all the truth! That OS X is so far advanced to windows, it's not even the same game, let alone in the same league!
The truth shall always be free: Boris Floricic is Tron.
Apple sucks.
Mac OS X sucks on servers and rocks on desktop
If you're not after performance that is...
Or if you're not after security...
Or if you are after vendor lock in...
Or if you enjoy buying from a company that is more litigious than SCO...
Or if you like vendors that deny security flaws...
Or you prefer to buy from a company that doesn't contribute the the real spirit of open source...
Or if you prefer to be in the company of rabid fan boys...
Or if you like spending 2-5x as much on similiarly performing hardware...
Or if you like a company that cannot make up its mind...
Or if you like buying from a vendor that refuses to fix obvious bugs...
Wait! What are the advantages again? A pretty desktop? Bastardized Unix? Jobs' Reality distortion field?
No thanks. I'll stick with Linux or one of the real BSDs.
Really, squigglesquish. That post is just *bad*. (Not to mention quite offensive to quite a few different groups.)
If you want to pull the analogies trick, then let's at least get *one* right (the car reference). If a mechanic sees that he's getting low voltage in the car immediately after installing a battery, doesn't it make sense to try a different battery? If a different battery has the same problem, then you can safely eliminate the battery as the cause.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade